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The Case of Peter Pan

Autor: Jacqueline Rose

Número de Páginas: 199

What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter Pan tell us about the theatrical, literary, and educational institutions of which it is a part? In a new preface written especially for this edition, Rose accounts for some of the new developments since her book's first publication in 1984. She discusses some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of a transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.

The Complete Works of J. M. Barrie (With Illustrations)

Autor: James Matthew Barrie

Número de Páginas: 4067

The Complete Works of J. M. Barrie (With Illustrations) presents a comprehensive collection of Barrie's literary oeuvre, showcasing his mastery of prose, drama, and the art of storytelling. Renowned for his whimsical yet profound exploration of childhood and the interplay between reality and imagination, Barrie's works, including the timeless classic Peter Pan, are imbued with rich symbolism and vibrant characters. This edition features illustrations that not only complement but enhance the text, providing readers with a multi-sensory engagement that reflects the Victorian and Edwardian literary context in which Barrie flourished. James Matthew Barrie, a Scottish author and playwright, was profoundly influenced by the loss of his brother at a young age, an event that ignited his fascination with youth and the concept of never growing up. His experiences in Edwardian society, coupled with his interactions with the Llewelyn Davies family, provided the emotional foundation that inspired his most famous works. Barrie's unique ability to blend humor with melancholy allowed him to create universally appealing narratives that resonate with readers across generations. For readers seeking...

The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction

Autor: Jacqueline Rose

Número de Páginas: 189

Once Upon a Time . . . A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tale Illustrations

Autor: Jeff A. Menges

Número de Páginas: 194

This collection gathers breathtaking art from early editions of "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," and other classics. 180 elegant images — most in color — include works by Rackham, Dore, Dulac, Nielsen, and others.

Popular Fiction

Autor: Tony Bennett

Número de Páginas: 362

First published in 1990, Popular Fiction looks at popular fiction in its literary, filmic, and televisual forms. They range across the main genres of popular fiction: science fiction, soap opera, detective fiction, the spy-thriller, the western, film noir, and comedy. Grouped into sections, the essays explore major themes in the study of popular fiction: the functioning of popular fiction within technologies of cultural regulation, the relations between popular fiction and nationalism; the connections between popular fictions and relations of power and knowledge; and the social and ideological factors moulding both the production and reading of popular fictions. Designed especially as a student text, this book will be invaluable to students of English and literary studies, media studies, film and TV studies, communication studies, and cultural studies.

The Illustrated Gift Book, 1880-1930

Autor: Michael Felmingham

Número de Páginas: 204

The history of book illustration is the story of a mechanical process releasing a great flowering of talent, a revolution in which photomechancial methods of reproduction provided a medium for a new scholl of illustrators. This book examines the methods and looks at the illustrators as well as their books describing their markets, training, tehcniques, remuneration and professional and social lives. It includes a chronologically arranged checklist of the illustrated books of over seventy artists, ranging from Aubrey Beardsley, Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle to the little known John Batten, Vernon Hill, Reginald Birch and Willy Pogány. It also includes contributions made to the genre by female artists as Mabel Lucie Attwell, Gwynedd Hudson, Margaret Tarrant, Millicent Sowerby, Mary Wheelhouse and many others.

Peter Pan (Prose Edition)

Autor: Caryl Hart

Número de Páginas: 0

J. M. Barrie's beloved tale is reimagined in this magical gift book by award-winning Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton

Grimms' Tales around the Globe

Autor: Vanessa Joosen

Número de Páginas: 322

Grimms’ fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms’ Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe, and North and Latin America to investigate the international reception of the Grimms’ tales. The essays in this volume offer insights into the social and literary role of the tales in a number of countries and languages, finding aspects that are internationally constant as well as locally particular. In the first section, Cultural Resistance and Assimilation, contributors consider the global history of the reception of the Grimms’ tales in a range of cultures. In these eight chapters, scholars explore how cunning translators and daring publishers around the world reshaped and rewrote the tales, incorporating them into existing fairy-tale traditions, inspiring new writings, and often introducing new uncertainties of meaning into the already ambiguous stories. Contributors in the second part, Reframings, Paratexts, and Multimedia Translations, shed light on how the Grimms’ tales...

The Works of J.M. Barrie: When a man's single

Autor: James Matthew Barrie

Número de Páginas: 296

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